A national study on the prevalence and factors associated with smoking amongst Malaysians aged 18 years and above

Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 41-53

  Rampal, Lekhraj ^a   Rampal, Sanjay ^b   Azhar, M Z ^a   Sherina, M S ^a   Mohamad, T ^c   Ramlee, R ^d   Ahmad, J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Malaysia)

^e Department of Statistics ^*  (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Initiation age; Malaysia; Peer influence; Prevalence; Smoking

Indexed keywords

EID: 55849130709     PISSN: 16758544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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